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First published in 2004, John Kenneth Galbraith's The Economics of Innocent Fraud is an extraordinarily prescient analysis of capitalism that has even greater power and relevance for our times.In this vigorous polemic John Kenneth Galbraith, a lifelong critic of unbridled corporate power, distils years of expertise to deliver a scathing attack on the modern financial ...
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The stories in this collection were written mostly between 1888 and 1897, a time when Henry James's writing was concerned with the art of fiction and the position of the artist in society. The motif and title story, "The Figure and the Carpet" is an inspired joke, a masterpiece of double-entendre that demands the reader's ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 10,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104865-9
EAN 9780141048659
Rules for a perfect life . . . Rule One: Do not ditch the man everyone says is perfect for you because he eats the last yellow jelly-baby in the bag. Rule Two: Do not move to a shack in the country to 'find yourself' and inadvertently become an object of ridicule for the locals. ...
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Julie and Julia
My Year of Cooking Dangerously
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The Case of the Pope
Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse
- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 10,15 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95384-6
EAN 9780241953846
THE CASE OF THE POPE delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world.Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? Should he and his seat of ...
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An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appear.Convinced that the disaster is a punishment sent from Heaven, the monk sets out to discover all he ...
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Russia's War
A History of the Soviet War
- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104917-5
EAN 9780141049175
In Russia's War: 1941-1945, Richard Overy re-creates the Soviet Union's apocalyptic struggle against Nazi Germany, from the point of view both of the troops and of the ordinary civilians. In the course of human history there has probably been no more terrible place than Eastern Europe in 1941-45. Estimates of total Soviet military and civilian ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 6,13 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104896-3
EAN 9780141048963
"If we in Great Britain are resolute and wise there will emerge from this catastrophe something which may well give hope to the world" First published in 1939 as a Penguin Special, this is the original best-selling account of why Britain went to war with Germany. In simple terms it describes the stages of Adolf ...
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A History of Christianity
The First Three Thousand Years
- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1216 páginas
PVP: 28,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102189-8
EAN 9780141021898
Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of Christianity around the globe, from ancient Palestine to contemporary China. How did an obscure personality cult come to be the world's biggest religion, with a third of humanity its followers? This book, now the most comprehensive and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 124 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-670-08416-6
EAN 9780670084166
"The Bhagavad Gita", a scintillating jewel embedded in the great Sanskrit epic "Mahabharata", is a dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna set against the background of war. At the beginning of the poem, we learn that there is going to be a great war for the rule of a kingdom. On the battlefield, with armies of ...
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Gamrah's faith in her new husband is not exactly returned ...Sadeem is a little too willing to please her fiance ...Michelle is half-American and the wrong class for her boyfriend's family ...While Lamees works hard with little time for love. The girls of Riyadh are young, attractive and living by Saudi Arabia's strict cultural traditions. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 5,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119220-8
EAN 9780141192208
This is Freud's groundbreaking study of a wealthy young Russian man, subject to psychotic episodes and neuroses. Through the patient's dream of childhood wolves, Freud was able to determine his real problem - that of infantile neurosis brought about by a sexual complex and an Oedipal fixation.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 4,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119127-0
EAN 9780141191270
In this collection of eight witty and sharply written essays, Orwell looks at, among others, the joys of spring (even in London), the picture of humanity painted by Gulliver and his travels, and the strange benefit of the doubt that the public permit Salvador Dali. Also included here are a mouth-watering essay on the delights ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104750-8
EAN 9780141047508
Charles Dickens describes in Night Walks his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunkenness and vice on the streets. This collection of essays shows Dickens as one of the greatest visionaries of the city in all its variety and cruelty.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95101-9
EAN 9780241951019
In Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has ...
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